Anne Simpson Quotes

I find playing with form allows me to play with ideas.

I find a way to ground myself, literally by using the ground of places near where I live.

I do this in my long poems. I have to move between one thing and another and this oscillation is the way I find out what I'm trying to say

The forms often loop back on themselves... circling around on an idea in order to examine it more fully.

I became a writer when I began to take it seriously.

I can look at the world aslant by using an unusual form and thus take hold of an idea in a unique way.